why does the old birdlady say: birds of the FIVE continents?
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zyggums — 14 years ago(March 22, 2012 11:59 PM)
She says if the birds of the FIVE continents were against us we would lose. There are birds on all 7 continents! why did she say FIVE? and if she discounted flightless penguins, that still makes SIX!
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zyggums — 14 years ago(March 23, 2012 12:04 AM)
is that considered trolling in your culture? Everything I said is a fact. And I asked in an Ernest way. You don't think its strange that the "bird expert" in this movie says there are birds on only 5 continents? You are the troll.
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zyggums — 14 years ago(April 03, 2012 01:34 AM)
the lady isnt saying that birds are coming to north america. she says simply that there are birds on ALL FIFE CONTINENTS. she is not suggesting some mass migration of all birds to north america.. .
please people, view the movie to see what im saying before commenting. thanks. -
knittingnoodle — 13 years ago(April 03, 2012 05:28 PM)
many people refer to the 'five continents' based on the 5 INHABITED continents. this is what was taught many years ago and still is in some countries.
this has been discussed on this board before and i really don't get why people can get so hung up on minutia like this and not just enjoy - or don't enjoy - the film. jeez. -
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PorkPie007 — 13 years ago(February 11, 2013 03:03 PM)
There was a time when people counted the Americas (North and South) as one continent and failed to include Antarctica at all (perhaps a hangover from a time before much was known about it, primarily that there was a land mass beneath the ice, unlike the North Pole which is rightly not considered a continent to this day because it is only frozen water; either that or because it had/has no permanent/indigenous human inhabitants).
When people talk variously about the five or seven continents, I often find the difference in how they count them is generational. I learned about the seven continents at primary school (in the 1990s), but when discussing this with my mother she considered that there were only five (she was educated in the 1950s/1960s). If children were still being taught about the five continents at the time that the film was made, it seems highly likely that an old woman who learnt elementary geography some decades earlier would also count the Americas as one and omit Antarctica. -
Onholyservicebound — 12 years ago(November 01, 2013 01:06 AM)
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jgroub — 9 years ago(October 28, 2016 10:40 PM)
Oh, really? They sure were able to make it all the way to the Middle East.
To get aboard Noah's Ark.
And then they got all the way back again.
So I, for one, would say that their chances of reaching North America are pretty damned good.
I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well. -
Tuggs-2010 — 13 years ago(April 08, 2012 10:14 PM)
She was pretty old, so maybe in her era, Australia wasn't discovered yet
In all seriousness I think we tend to catch goofs like that in older movies because todays viewers tend to be more critical and expect more believability. The Core for example was slammed for being one of the most scientifically inaccurate movies. Had they had filmed it back in the 50's the audience could have cared less that it was inplausible.